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Fellowship of Fantasy Partnering with Uncommon Universes
Fellowship of Fantasy is partnering with Uncommon Universes Press to host our existing anthologies and publish new ones. The existing Fellowship of Fantasy Anthologies will remain free to download as is (as always, authors maintain reprint rights to the stories published in the anthologies), though they will now be also listed on UUP’s website and …
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My Favorite Social Media Schedule Hack
My Favorite Social Media Schedule Hack A Guest Post by H. L. Burke Maintaining an active social media presence can be time consuming, overwhelming, and frustrating for authors. Sometimes it might seem like we have to spend so much time coming up with free content for our various channels that we can’t work on the …
Online Etiquette Tips for Authors:
I recently asked three different author groups what are some social media/online gaffs that they see authors making that make them face palm harder than meme Picard. They had a lot to say. Here are some of the top responses (with clarification and helpful ideas about what you can do instead). Don’t add users to …
Back to Basics: 5 minute tasks to improve your author platform
Okay, bear with me. There’s a high chance you’ve done most if not all of the things on this list, especially if you’ve been indie published for some time. At the same time, I don’t know how many times I’ve started an author consultation and I’m like, “Um, you haven’t crossed this most basic of …
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When should I start promoting my book?
I saw someone post in a writers’ group I’m in that “Yay! I got my first review. Now I can finally start promoting!” And I didn’t want to be all “step on their happy time” but … you do not have to wait until you have reviews, even a single one, to start promoting your …
Why Isn’t My Book Selling? A Diagnostic Checklist.
Why isn’t my book selling? A lot of pre-published authors assume writing the book is the hard part, but from my experience, it has nothing on the perils of actually getting people to read the book you poured your heart and soul, to say nothing of hours, days, if not years of your time, into. …
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